How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #25
"See you in New York, Terry," I said. She was supposed to drive to New York in a month with her brother. But we both knew she wouldn’t make it. At a hundred feet I turned to look at her. She just walked on back to the shack, carrying my breakfast plate in one hand. I bowed my head and watched her. Well, lackadaddy, I was on the road again. (I.13.62).
Although Sal claims he is never really home, he returns to the road as though it were his home.
Quote #26
The bus roared on. I was going home in October. Everybody goes home in October. (I.14.1)
Sal recognizes his own patterns of travel and return in those around him.
Quote #27
Can you picture me walking those last miles through the Lincoln Tunnel or over the Washington Bridge and into New Jersey? It was dusk. Where was Hassel? I dug the square for Hassel; he wasn’t there, he was in Riker’s Island, behind bars. Where Dean? W34here everybody? Where life? (I.14.9)
Sal suggests that his need for companionship in his travels may have to do with his own inability to accurately describe life. He needs other people there, like Dean, to tell him about it.